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DAC
1999
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
ICEBERG: An Embedded In-Circuit Emulator Synthesizer for Microcontrollers
This paper presents a synthesis tool ICEBERG for embedded in-circuit emulators (ICE's), that are part of the development environment for microcontroller (or microprocessor)-b...
Ing-Jer Huang, Tai-An Lu
ISLPED
2009
ACM
125views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Behavior-level observability don't-cares and application to low-power behavioral synthesis
Many techniques for power management employed in advanced RTL synthesis tools rely explicitly or implicitly on observability don’t-care (ODC) conditions. In this paper we presen...
Jason Cong, Bin Liu, Zhiru Zhang
DAC
2003
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
A scalable software-based self-test methodology for programmable processors
Software-based self-test (SBST) is an emerging approach to address the challenges of high-quality, at-speed test for complex programmable processors and systems-on chips (SoCs) th...
Li Chen, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan, Sujit D...
VTS
2007
IEEE
143views Hardware» more  VTS 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
RTL Test Point Insertion to Reduce Delay Test Volume
In this paper, a novel test point insertion methodology is presented for RTL designs that aims to reduce the data volume of scan-based transition delay tests. Test points are iden...
Kedarnath J. Balakrishnan, Lei Fang
ICCAD
2004
IEEE
128views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2004»
16 years 24 days ago
Power estimation for cycle-accurate functional descriptions of hardware
— Cycle-accurate functional descriptions (CAFDs) are being widely adopted in integrated circuit (IC) design flows. Power estimation can potentially benefit from the inherent in...
Lin Zhong, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan, Niraj...